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We suggest a novel discretisation of the momentum equation for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and show that it significantly improves the accuracy of the obtained solutions. Our new formulation which we refer to as relative pressure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Tom Abel

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a ubiquitous numerical method for solving the fluid equations, and is prized for its conservation properties, natural adaptivity, and simplicity. We introduce the Sphenix SPH scheme, which was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller , Richard G. Bower , Joop Schaye

We present a novel implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPHS) that uses the spatial derivative of the velocity divergence as a higher order dissipation switch. Our switch -- which is second order accurate -- detects flow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. I. Read , T. Hayfield

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method for solving the fluid equations that is commonplace in astrophysics, prized for its natural adaptivity and stability. The choice of variable to smooth in SPH has been the topic of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller , Richard G. Bower

The problem of chemical and dynamical evolution of galaxies is one of the most attracting and complex problems of modern astrophysics. Within the framework of the given work the standard dynamic Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Berczik

In fluid dynamical simulations in astrophysics, large deformations are common and surface tracking is sometimes necessary. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been used in many of such simulations. Recently, however, it has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Satoko Yamamoto , Junichiro Makino

We seek to accelerate and increase the size of simulations for fluid-structure interactions (FSI) by using multiple resolutions in the spatial discretization of the equations governing the time evolution of systems displaying two-way…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Wei Hu , Wenxiao Pan , Milad Rakhsha , Qiang Tian , Haiyan Hu , Dan Negrut

Total Lagrangian Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (TLSPH) is one variant of SPH where the variables are described using the fixed reference configuration and a Lagrangian smoothing kernel. TLSPH elevates the computational efficiency of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 I. M. Wiragunarsa , L. R. Zuhal , T. Dirgantara , I. S. Putra , E. Febrianto

This review discusses Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in the astrophysical context, with a focus on inviscid gas dynamics. The particle-based SPH technique allows an intuitive and simple formulation of hydrodynamics that has excellent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-13 Volker Springel

We test and improve the numerical schemes in our smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code for cosmological simulations, including the pressure-entropy formulation (PESPH), a time-dependent artificial viscosity, a refined timestep…

For simulations that deal only with dark matter or stellar systems, the conventional N-body technique is fast, memory efficient, and relatively simple to implement. However when including the effects of gas physics, mesh codes are at a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-21 Nigel L. Mitchell , Eduard I. Vorobyov , Gerhard Hensler

Numerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest existing computing systems and exploit state-of-the-art…

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a frequently applied tool in computational astrophysics to solve the fluid dynamics equations governing the systems under study. For some problems, for example when involving asteroids and asteroid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Irina Sagert , Oleg Korobkin , Ingo Tews , Bing-Jyun Tsao , Hyun Lim , Michael J. Falato , Julien Loiseau

A new Lagrangian particle method for solving Euler equations for compressible inviscid fluid or gas flows is proposed. Similar to smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), the method represents fluid cells with Lagrangian particles and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-21 Hsin-Chiang Chen , Roman Samulyak , Wei Li

We develop a numerical hydrodynamics code using a pseudo-Newtonian formulation that uses the weak field approximation for the geometry, and a generalized source term for the Poisson equation that takes into account relativistic effects. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jinho Kim , Hee Il Kim , Matthew William Choptuik , Hyung Mok Lee

We describe numerical methods for incorporating gas dynamics into cosmological simulations and present illustrative applications to the cold dark matter (CDM) scenario. Our evolution code, a version of TreeSPH (Hernquist \& Katz 1989)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 Neal Katz , David H. Weinberg , Lars Hernquist

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH_ is a mesh-free Lagrangian method renowned for modeling large deformations and free-surface flows, yet classical formulations remain confined to deterministic systems. We introduce Stochastic SPH…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mridul Tiwari , Sawan Kumar , Md Rushdie Ibne Islam , Souvik Chakraborty

We introduce a new computational method for embedding Lagrangian sink particles into an Eulerian calculation. Simulations of gravitational collapse or accretion generally produce regions whose density greatly exceeds the mean density in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein

We examine the Lagrangian divergence of the displacement field, arguably a more natural object than the density in a Lagrangian description of cosmological large-scale structure. This quantity, which we denote \psi, quantifies the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-17 Mark C. Neyrinck

Particle methods play an important role in the study of a wide variety of astrophysical fluid dynamics problems. The different methods currently in use are all variants of the so-called Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederic A. Rasio